Michael Santoli
CNBC talking head. Markets, mostly. Maybe some baseball and movies.
- Song about the crazy life was released the same month the QQQ ETF was launched, the entire culture was on the same page. Exactly a year later, with the Nasdaq higher by 110%, the bubbliest of market bubbles peaked. Soon, history would resume...
- Assume they'll discuss how Rose's on-field output looks less impressive via today's statistical lens. Akin to Boggs and Gwynn (with 75% of their hits singles), but trails both badly in OPS/OPS+. Quite similar to Jeter, with less power. Tacked on 600 hits in his final years as a below-average player.
- Talking Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe, and the Hall of Fame with the great @dvnjr.bsky.social, @keithob.bsky.social, and @jayjaffe.bsky.social next week! Hope you'll join us on Zoom for this SABR webinar: sabr.org/latest/join-...
- Numbers are still more than enough, even if advanced stats don’t like them as much. But this isn’t about numbers, it’s about character.
- Of course they're enough, I'm just contrasting today's take with how his record was viewed upon retirement. And I'm obviously not addressing his awful character. I don't particularly care if he makes the Hall, am more interested in seeing the PED cohort go in.
- the 2 greatest baseball players of my generation (mid 90s to mid 00s) are Pedro and Bonds. they should have their own wings in the hall of fame
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View full threadI just can’t pull down the Bonds performance despite some extra help (that was presumably rampant in the sport). he had the discipline to walk in 33% of his plate appearances times from ‘01-‘04. that’s a skill no one else had
- Not to re-litigate the whole case, but he was pitched around constantly in those years because his magical late-career bat-speed surge meant he was crushing everything in the zone.
- Agreed, but one especially cool thing about Pedro is that he put up those numbers before hitting a normal decline starting in his mid-30s. Bonds was incredible, should be in the Hall with the rest of the great PED guys, but his wild ramp in performance after age 36 needs to be discounted.
- @michaelsantoli.bsky.social Did you drive Overtime into double overtime?
- I always give 102%
